Heinrich Heine: Citáty v angličtine (page 2)
Heinrich Heine bol nemecký básnik, novinár, esejista a literárny kritik. Citáty v angličtine.“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Varianta: Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
“One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
Statement of 1848, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 91
One must forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
As quoted in A Mania for Sentences (1985) by Dennis Joseph Enright, p. 10
Varianta: We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
As quoted in The Medical Record No. 674 (6 October 1883); also in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 447
History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany, Vol. III (1834)
Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten,
Dass ich so traurig bin;
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Die Lorelei, st. 1
“Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.”
History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany, Vol. I (1834)
Lutetia; or, Paris. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII (1842)
“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”
As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green
Variant translation: The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 281
Französische Bühne (The French Stage), ch. 9 (1837)
Originál: (de) Die Menschen in jener alten Zeit hatten Überzeugungen, wir Neueren haben nur Meinungen, und es gehört etwas mehr als eine bloße Meinung dazu, um so einen gotischen Dom aufzurichten.
“True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
Misattributed
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 6
Religion and Philosophy in Germany, A fragment https://archive.org/stream/religionandphilo011616mbp#page/n5/mode/2up, p. 26
“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”
James Harrington in The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656)
Misattributed